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Neddy Seagoon posted:Cora's mostly a decent character, but her backstory has some glaring basic ME lore plotholes ("Oh woe, the Alliance Military was scared of me being a strong Biotic and sent me as far away as possible" doesn't work when the Alliance Military are one of the few Earth groups that bend over backwards to get Biotics into their ranks.) and she overstates the "I was an Asari Huntress, you know" thing way too often. You can quote literature without stating how you came to learn it with every single quote to strangers. that's cause cora is literally an asari weeaboo who went to thessia for a couple of years and therefore thinks she's practically asari now if she had an apartment on the nexus it would be covered in wallscrolls with random asari writing on them
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Kylra posted:The prequels were written by George Lucas, the guy who kind of kicked off the Star Wars thing. The main difference between the Star Wars OT and the prequels was that he had far more and broader absolute control over the prequels. Lets not get too hasty in our comparisons here. Andromeda in general feels like someone ran through the cliffs notes of Mass Effect before throwing their first draft of a script together. The real problem is it doesn't feel like Mass Effect in the Andromeda Galaxy, it's just Mass Effect done poorly compared to the original. You get all of one new alien race to interact and socialize with, and your main hub is a Citadel knockoff full of Milky Way races you've met before. The seedy underbelly colony is just Omega Mk.2 with a psychotic bitch-queen in charge who will keep her word if given. Only this time, she's human. The Remnant Monoliths aren't even all that interesting, because after the first set on Eos they just become a extra checkbox to fill out on the road to fixing each planet's biosphere with some Sudoko mixed in for the sake of puzzles. They really needed to stick some lore in them, go scanning ancient datapads for bit entries on whatever mysterious things the Remnant were doing before they vanished or something. In general the side-content and loyalty missions are pretty good though, and New Tuchanka is a magical experience when you start reading the local Terminals  . The mental image of Krogran LARP'ers is a beautiful thing.Zikan posted:that's cause cora is literally an asari weeaboo who went to thessia for a couple of years and therefore thinks she's practically asari now Honestly I really think they should've stuck some kind of Asari wallscroll or artwork in the hydroponics lab where she's hanging out. Or even just in the sleeping quarters somewhere.
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Iron Crowned posted:You can see it if you just look down at the ice when you get that quest SMDH I drove out onto the ice near there and then some random voice radioed me asking for help finding a wraith with the scanner, and I couldn't find it so I just left
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Mar 30, 2017 17:10
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Zikan posted:that's cause cora is literally an asari weeaboo who went to thessia for a couple of years and therefore thinks she's practically asari now
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Mar 30, 2017 17:12
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Neddy Seagoon posted:You get all of one new alien race to interact and socialize with, and your main hub is a Citadel knockoff full of Milky Way races you've met before. If you had more than the Angara and Kett to deal with people would be complaining about how it doesn't make sense to have all these new alien races when Andromeda doesn't have an ME relay system to facilitate a cohesive galactic society
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Mar 30, 2017 17:16
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Regarding environmental hazards, I'm reminded of Tali's recruitment mission in Mass Effect 2. You're in direct sunlight? You don't have shields. I wish Andromeda's environmental hazards were more thought out than every single one just being a timer until you take damage over time and then die. Maybe you can survive in the cold but your aim goes to poo poo on Voeld due to the cold and shivering. Maybe your vision gets blurry after too long in the acidic atmosphere of Kadara. Would certainly serve to differentiate the planets more in a gameplay sense as well as visually.
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Mar 30, 2017 17:17
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Fojar38 posted:Only gamebreaking bug I've encountered so far is a pretty specific one. I was fighting the Voeld architect and paused and used a shield boost at pretty much the exact moment my HP reached zero, so it recharged my shield but I had zero HP and I was zombieing around for as long as the overcharge lasted. I couldn't die but nobody elses HP was falling either. Trying to reload my most recent save led to a softlock so I had to go back to one before it. I had something similar (also the Voeld Architect), except I died at the same time it did, and leveled up when it died, so I think it gave me my health back, but I was in one of those electrical fields that it does, so I was slowly dying again as a corpse that couldn't get up.
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Mar 30, 2017 17:18
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Even Zelda lets you carry fire/ice swords to generate cold/heat around you to help protect against the environment.
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Mar 30, 2017 17:20
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Zikan posted:that's cause cora is literally an asari weeaboo who went to thessia for a couple of years and therefore thinks she's practically asari now There's a nice bit of dialogue I got between Peebee and Cora when driving around in the Nomad where Peebee pretty much calls Cora out on this rather explicitly.
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Mar 30, 2017 17:20
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Halloween Jack posted:Why do you think you were gathering up all of Matriarch Dilinaga's writings in ME1? So they could be scanlated, of course. Cora: "These materials have not been accepted by the asari commandos and therefore ARE NOT CANON and I don't care how many people post about this "Commander Shepard," he does not have the experience on living on Thessia among actual asari as I have done and probably doesn't know basic history like the Athame Doctrine and furthermore..." Zikan fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Mar 30, 2017 17:19
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Random rear end in a top hat posted:The Sweeper is pretty great, it takes about 3 bursts or so (with the AR skill tree) and isn't limited by ammo OR a long recharge time like other Heatsink guns. In terms of pistols the Hurricane does pretty obscene damage, roughly on par with the Piranha, those two are the best full-auto weapons in the game no question. I had a Mattock V with the Beam augment and I swear it took like 5 shots to the head to bring down a regular-rear end Chosen.
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Mar 30, 2017 17:22
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Cora's mostly a decent character, but her backstory has some glaring basic ME lore plotholes ("Oh woe, the Alliance Military was scared of me being a strong Biotic and sent me as far away as possible" doesn't work when the Alliance Military are one of the few Earth groups that bend over backwards to get Biotics into their ranks.) and she overstates the "I was an Asari Huntress, you know" thing way too often. You can quote literature without stating how you came to learn it with every single quote to strangers. That's not how I understood her backstory. The way she described it to me was: I was a biotic on a freighter, born to a family no money for tutors. An untrained biotic on a freighter is really dangerous so people there didn't like me. The Alliance had training and implants and gave me a home and then I transferred to the Asarimas part of a cross-species military exchange program. (And then I became a total Asari fangirl who is so desperate to feel cool and special that I will quote Asari philosophy to Asari in the middle of combat.) That seems pretty in line with the ME lore?
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Mar 30, 2017 17:25
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Baron Corbyn posted:Is it possible to find your sibling/the cryo bay on Meridian in the post game? Who > He Whom > Him Also lol that Addison fucks it all up later with a typical lesser/fewer goof. I wonder if it's possible to exile her and Tann while putting Kesh and Kanderos in charge.
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Mar 30, 2017 17:28
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Charles Get-Out posted:If you had more than the Angara and Kett to deal with people would be complaining about how it doesn't make sense to have all these new alien races when Andromeda doesn't have an ME relay system to facilitate a cohesive galactic society True, but it'd still be more interesting. The original Mass Effect throws a millenia-old society of several races all living together at you who are still a bit wary of the hairy pink things turning up in their territories even after 30-odd years since they first appeared. Andromeda gives you a single race of vagina-headed aliens who have already met humans through the Exiles, and shoots what should've been a MAJOR first-contact event in the story stone dead as a result. doingitwrong posted:That's not how I understood her backstory. The way she described it to me was: I was a biotic on a freighter, born to a family no money for tutors. An untrained biotic on a freighter is really dangerous so people there didn't like me. The Alliance had training and implants and gave me a home and then I transferred to the Asarimas part of a cross-species military exchange program. (And then I became a total Asari fangirl who is so desperate to feel cool and special that I will quote Asari philosophy to Asari in the middle of combat.) No, the Alliance Military turfed her out to an Interspecies military exchange program by force because they didn't want that damnable Biotic was the wording I got from it. Neddy Seagoon fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Pattonesque posted:that can shoot fire or snap-freeze or electrocute people. So what you're telling me is that Samsung makes all the omni-tools 
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Do y'all think they'll modify the environmental hazards to actually be hazardous?
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AngryBooch posted:Regarding environmental hazards, I'm reminded of Tali's recruitment mission in Mass Effect 2. You're in direct sunlight? You don't have shields. If you hang out in the wrong parts of Eos you grow 3-6 extra huge tits and it messes with your movement speed.
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Mar 30, 2017 17:31
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Neddy Seagoon posted:True, but it'd still be more interesting. The original Mass Effect throws a millenia-old society of several races all living together at you who are still a bit wary of the hairy pink things turning up in their territories even after 30-odd years since they first appeared. That's pretty fair and they definitely could've spun a game out of first contact problems with the Angara. In my opinion it would have been more satisfying to have one alien presence that is the focal point and source of political problems than 2.5 alien presences that aren't so much. Nancy fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Chill Nazi Frog posted:Who > He that's literally what I said, mate. He is a subject pronoun, him is an object pronoun. You'd say "he needs to be cockslapped", not "him needs to be cockslapped."
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Baron Corbyn posted:that's literally what I said, mate. He is a subject pronoun, him is an object pronoun. You'd say "he needs to be cockslapped", not "him needs to be cockslapped." No, I know. It's just a convenient way of remembering it because two short ones, and two 'm' ones. Sorry. My face is just tired from dealing with grammar all day.
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canepazzo posted:How are you guys editing the settings file for the ultra+ textures? Mine gets overwritten by the game once I start it; do you set it as read-only? You should just be able to open up ProfOpts_profile in WordPad or Notepad++ or whatever and just change the values then save the file. If it worked the graphics settings in game will just be blank for the ones you edited. I played through the main missions on my old outdated computer where I had to run most things on medium or low and now that I'm playing on a new computer where I can crank everything up and get 70+ FPS all the time holy moly do I enjoy this game even more. It looks and feels so much better and I didn't even dislike it before.
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TheCenturion posted:
great post and this is the only point i disagree with, because he never struck me as that grumpy. but he is pretty happy and care free compared to wrex and even grunt(trying to find himself and all that.)
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Mar 30, 2017 18:01
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Last night I got the part where Drack yells "WE JUST WANT TO TALK!" when combat starts and it is really great, Drack is great.
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Zikan posted:that's cause cora is literally an asari weeaboo who went to thessia for a couple of years and therefore thinks she's practically asari now what is great about this is that there are apparently a whole lot of asari humaboos who are obsessed with ancient earth stuff
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Dapper_Swindler posted:great post and this is the only point i disagree with, because he never struck me as that grumpy. but he is pretty happy and care free compared to wrex and even grunt(trying to find himself and all that.) Yeah, Drack is great, because he is so different from the Krogan we have seen until now. Loved the stuff that he talks about after his companion mission. Generally the Krogan are probably the most fleshed out thing in this game, even more than the Angara and their culture and setting has greatly broadened compared to ME 1. That's why I want to put the genophage poo poo behind us - we had the topic and all the moral implications and poinderings over three games and 10 years, time to move on and look for new high concept stuff to explore.
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The thing I like most about Drack is actually the fact that he's old and isn't obsessed with taking the most violent and unhinged approach to every single problem. Wrex and Grunt both had a problem where if you stopped them from being violent a-holes they would often resent you for it, whereas Drack is like "Yeah whatever, I don't have anything to prove like the young punks do."
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Wasn't the Genophage kind of sidestepped with that %4 increase in child viability or whatever?
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SgtSteel91 posted:Wasn't the Genophage kind of sidestepped with that %4 increase in child viability or whatever? 4000 % increase. Which might or might not be a bit of a problem however they treat it.
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Decius posted:4000 % increase. Which might or might not be a bit of a problem however they treat it. Yeah now they can 40 children in a lifetime instead of .4! Yay!
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Neddy Seagoon posted:and she overstates the "I was an Asari Huntress, you know" thing way too often. You can quote literature without stating how you came to learn it with every single quote to strangers. "An asari huntress is a silent predator." -- Carlson & Peters, page 824.
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Decius posted:4000 % increase. Which might or might not be a bit of a problem however they treat it. This doesn't make any sense. We've gone from 1 out of every 1000 pregnancies to quadruplets every time. Krogans and their quads, man.
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Mar 30, 2017 18:22
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Chill Nazi Frog posted:This doesn't make any sense. We've gone from 1 out of every 1000 pregnancies to quadruplets every time. I mean this poo poo never made any sense. At first I thought the krogan had, like, eggs or whatever since they called them clutches, and they laid 1000 eggs in a clutch, so this would mean that they still could have one kid per year/reproductive cycle. Andromeda is gonna get overrun with armor frogs pretty quick with that increase in viability.
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Chill Nazi Frog posted:This doesn't make any sense. We've gone from 1 out of every 1000 pregnancies to quadruplets every time. They've never said how Krogan's managed to have thousands of children back in the day. I imagine a pregnancy resulting in dumping a few hundred tiny lizard things that probably traditionally engaged in post-birth cannibalism or something.
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Chill Nazi Frog posted:I had a Mattock V with the Beam augment and I swear it took like 5 shots to the head to bring down a regular-rear end Chosen. The Mattock was my favorite gun for mid range combat in ME2. I was so happy to see it in Andromeda, but holy poo poo is it worthless.
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I'm going to rescue him and then I'm going to kill him Hahahaha i love drack
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Dapper_Swindler posted:great post and this is the only point i disagree with, because he never struck me as that grumpy. but he is pretty happy and care free compared to wrex and even grunt(trying to find himself and all that.) Like I said, grumpy, but for a Krogan.
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Avalerion posted:I feel like the whole genophage thing got retconed at some point between me 1 and 2, they changed it from being portrayed as causing low fertility to instead causing millions of stillbirths. The later made it unecesarily cruel and monstrous - and ironically the me: a solution does not really do anything about this aspect I feel. Don't Krogans lay eggs, like chickens? It's not like a hundred dead babies were slithering out of a krogan lady's lizard cooch every few days. They'd lay eggs, and non of those eggs would be fertilized, or would have been genetically blocked from being fertilized. Honestly, Krogans should be making omelets like nobody's business - Just a galaxy wide chain of Mc The Krogan being uplifted and all the poo poo that happened as a result was one of the more interesting parts of the ME universe.
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Drifter posted:Don't Krogans lay eggs, like chickens? It's not like a hundred dead babies were slithering out of a krogan lady's lizard cooch every few days. They'd lay eggs, and non of those eggs would be fertilized, or would have been genetically blocked from being fertilized. They lay eggs and the eggs would be fertilized, but the babies in 999 out of 1000 eggs would be stillborn. That's why the Genophage is so hard on the Krogan. Now 960 out of the 1000 eggs would contain stillborn babies.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:No, the Alliance Military turfed her out to an Interspecies military exchange program by force because they didn't want that damnable Biotic was the wording I got from it. I think what she meant is that the people she was serving with became scared of her powers so the Alliance moved her to an asari unit that wouldn't care. The first Mass Effect game had a bunch of side quests that focused on human biotics who became outcasts because regular folk are scared of their power and don't understand it but that's something that the later games didn't really have at all.
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Halloween Jack posted:Yeah, regardless of whether you like them are not, the prequels take the piss out of the original trilogy's idealism because they were written and directed by Lucas. To clarify, it debuffs enemies so they take more damage. TheCenturion posted:The bad guy coming up on the vidscreen, with ominous music, then being completely cut off mid-crescendo when Ryder or Liam hits the 'hang up' button to continue their conversation, repeatedly, was funny. "I shot the console. Do you... do you think he'll be mad!?"
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